Posted on 11/09/2017 2:32:03 PM PST by drewh
WASHINGTON — Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis says he sees ‘nothing wrong’ with the California ACLU’s effort to ban the Star Spangled Banner as the country’s national anthem.
“Well, you know, one of the things about the Constitution that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place and there is room to change,” he told TheDC Thursday.
Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of the NAACP, declared the anthem to be “racist” and that it “doesn’t represent our community. It’s anti-black people,” SFGate.com, reported Wednesday. The NAACP is hoping for lawmakers to change it.
Davis, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus went on to say, “Intellectually, if people continue to pursue this nation to become perfected, then I see nothing wrong with that. I mean it was designed, I think they said, to form a more perfect union.”
He added, “They didn’t say that it was perfect at the time, but they did say that we could continue to pursue perfection and if they’re individuals who think that we can make the national anthem more perfect in terms of the goals and objectives of this country then I say so be it.”
Fellow CBC member Democratic Missouri Rep. Lacy Clay said he would have to examine which part of the anthem the NAACP takes issue with, but he told TheDC, “They have a right to object to any stances in the national anthem that they find objectionable and racist.”
The NAACP referenced the anthem’s third verse, which is seldom sung and includes the line, “no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
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Yup. They can propose the “Internationale.”
Even the Soviets got it rid of it because they needed a proper national anthem.
We don’t need one now? What do we agree upon anyway?
They won’t like GGROBR because it refers to Christmas.
He’d change it to “The Internationale”
All politics is local.
This is for the morons back home to feel good about..................
Perhaps Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis would prefer “Blueberry Hill.”
Make it a top priority.
Danny takes his “rightful place” along with the other Black Mensas in the Congress today. The list is sadly long, and includes all the people shown here:
https://cbc.house.gov/membership/
Curious, Why did all these so called Prominent Black people gleefully Join the party of the KKK immediately after MLK was Killed??
Leftists have always wanted to fundamentally change the U.S.A.
It is no jump for them to want to change the National Anthem.
Danny Davis is a black supremacist and a racist.
The Black folks who helped us fight the Revolutionary War must be spinning in their graves.
F the National Association of Angry Colored People and the Congressional Black Caucus.
He should move back to Africa ,they change National Anthem each time they get a new Dictator
Change it to The Battle Hymm of the Republic.
I have ZERO interest in the opinion of any public servant who belongs to the racist Black Caucus.
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“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
Booker T. Washington.
these people are completely insane ... nuts...crazy...wacko
Again, Democrats leave the crazy statement s to the black representatives, because people will be too scared to call them out, and everyone else will see them as clowns, and won’t take them seriously.
No different than that idiot in the cowboy hat.
DIXIE always sounded good
Does this Francis Scott Key character, have a blog, twitter or facebook account, where he explains what he meant by “No refuge could save the hireling and slave.”
I wanna know.
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